Kate Rossmanith
Kate Rossmanith is a writer and anthropologist. She is the author of Small Wrongs: How we really say sorry in love, life and law (2018), and is the co-editor of Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives (2022). Kate is an Associate Professor at Macquarie University where she teaches into the nonfiction writing program. In 2021 she was awarded a four-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Kate lives and works on Dharug Country.
All essays by Kate Rossmanith
On Not Asking ‘Should I Insert Myself in the Text?’
How should researchers acknowledge their selfhood in their writing? Kate Rossmanith addresses this question as both a compositional and philosophical issue, unpicking the assumptions behind the most common strategies for self-examination.
From Here to There
To make a decision entails a kind of travel – thought travel – with stopping points and progression. To live with a decision is to feel the sensation of firm ground, of arrival. It is to look back and construct a reassuring story of your mind’s route, a story possessing the stability of structure, of foundation, coupled with the exhilaration of onward movement.